@zhangschmidt said:
I, for one, am still mad at the field testers and Suunto for thinking that the “GPS Signal Lost: Continue or Wait?” function was a good idea. No, if I’m out somewhere, I won’t stop for the GPS signal, and it will probably be lost because I’m in a cave or a tunnel. And I want my watch to just continue recording what it can, not ask to hold my hand
That specific “GPS Signal Lost” message was one of the reasons I switched from Suunto 9 Baro to Garmin Fenix 6. Seriously! I was in a middle of a fast paced night race and this message popped up while I was running really hard and the text was blurry because of night time contrast issues and me having a headlamp, and I just couldn’t read the options and didn’t know what button to press, and obviously didn’t want to stop to be able to better read the message. So I just continued running until I finished with not being able to see any data. I remember I was so mad at Suunto!
Making users mad is what makes them switch to competitors.
To me that demonstrated that Suunto didn’t have a good mix of testers that covered the whole gamut of use cases. And it sometimes feels that that is still the case. The current set of navigation features - how they are implemented - shows that the features are not designed for racing ultramarathons. I could make a decently long list of issues that demonstrate that.